Planck, Solar Impulse Project, Spitzer Space Telescope and in Vitro Fertilisation


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Planck (Spacecraft)


Solar Impulse Project

Solar impulse is a European long range solar powered plane project which aims at circumnavigating the world on a solar powered air plane. In July 2010, the plane completed a 24-hour flight, the first solar plane to do so by using batteries charged during the day to keep it aloft overnight.

Spitzer Space Telescope



  • Compton Gamma Ray Observatory: Launched in 1991 and was deorbited in 2000.


GPS Aided Geo Augmentation Navigation (GAGAN)


In Vitro Fertilisation



Water on Moon



Stuxnet was a computer worm that was found to affect several computers in Iran (it later spread to India, Indonesia and other countries). The worm affected the computers at the nuclear facility in Iran. It is speculated that it was aimed at destroying the centrifuges at Iran’s nuclear establishment.

El Tor

It is a strain of a cholera causing bacteria. This strain led to a cholera outbreak in Haiti in late 2010

Important Institutes of Science and Technology

Important Institutes of Science and Technology
Important Institutes of Science and Technology



Why in news?


International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Scientists found out a germ for tuberculosis that helps it remain dormant in host’s body

Human Papillomavirus

Is a member of the papillomavirus family of viruses that is capable of affecting humans. They can cause cancers of the cervix, vulva, vagina and anus in women or cancers of the anus and penis in men. HPV was in news recently due to the controversy over medical trials of a drug for treating cervical cancer.

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